Beyond voice, probably the simplest and most ubiquitous technology on the mobile phone is text (SMS), North America has been a bit of a laggard adopting this technology but in the last year or so has really started to use text.
I think the voting on American Idol might have been one part of the tipping point for texting in the US. I’ve certainly seen a rise in the amount of people using text, but being in San Francisco my experience may not be mainstream. Here’s some interesting text interfaces:
- see this page for their sms queries
- A Dutch company has a mobile read more about it at the social architects blog
- article about the design and implementation of ARG’s Dave Szulburski thinks that SMS and text interfaces will become more prevalent.
Any other uncommon uses for SMS messaging you know of? leave a comment or email me.
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